The journalists around this week’s Washington Week with The Atlantic roundtable had great fun mocking president-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine and the regular moderator of the panel, set the table, keying on controversial Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) withdrawing his name from consideration as attorney general.
Jeffrey Goldberg: Matt Gaetz’s improbable and ultimately impossible nomination soaked up a lot of attention this week. But many of President-elect Trump`s other nominees are equally improbable…..
He asked fellow PBS journalist Laura Barron-Lopez why Trump would nominate someone “who’s plainly unfit and plainly unconfirmable for a very important job.”
She explained that Trump “wanted pure loyalists” this time around and also explained that “Matt Gaetz is not necessarily well…
